. . . as the old-time actor dude who sued TV Star Chevy Chase for saying that Mr. Grant was "Gay" because there was a hot Black Market for items signed "To my spouse Cary" by his long-time house-MATE, fellow movie premier attendee Randolph Scott. This is not surprising, since Chevy still pops up on TV from time to time (at least as frequently as his namesake automobile brand), whereas Mr. Grant permanently expired when Chevy was a teenager or something. Residents of This Our 21st Century will learn from CARY GRANT: A CLASS APART that its title character was a heavy user of the then-legal "mind-expanding" drug LSD while appearing in such dubious films as OPERATION PETTICOAT, I WAS A MALE WAR BRIDE, HOUSEBOAT, and WALK, DON'T RUN. Such a precipitous career decline on the part of one of famed director Alfred Hitchcock's most frequent leading men gave the U.S. Congress all the ammunition it need to outlaw further LSD doses for Mr. Grant (as well as for the rest of us still alive Today). As Grandma always said, cross-dresser J. Edgar Hoover never sued anyone for calling him "Mary."
Review of Cary Grant: A Class Apart
